Also don't forget that many clients use beacons to determine if the network
they're connected to still exists. I've seen plenty of cases where a client
that misses a number of beacons starts to wig out (that's the technical
term). Increasing your beacon interval is just asking for trouble in my
My understanding is you really don’t want to be playing with this, perhaps if
all other avenues have been exhausted it can be investigated….
Reduce your SSID’s, disable lower data rates, reduce co-channel AP’s (your own
and neighbours)
If you haven’t seen it play with this tool (Changing the
Hey Craig,
It really depends on how dense your environment is. Keep in mind, the
longer your beacon interval, the slower the roaming time clients take
between APs. In my mind, the overhead that beacons introduce is far less of
an issue than mobile clients dropping connections when they're roaming
Hello Group,
On most vendor products that I’ve seen, the beacon intervals for SSIDs by
default are set to ~100ms. Has anyone gone to the lengths of increasing this
default in an effort to combat overhead?
- Craig
SFU SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Network Services
Craig Simons
Network
Bruce,
How did your campus address the privacy concerns with your community? Was the
service already in compliance with existing policy, or did you have to engage
Faculty/Staff/Students and get them to sign off?
Jeff
From: "wireless-lan@listserv.educause.edu"
For those of you who are Aruba shops, Do you see this as a replacement for
Airwave? I didn’t see anything like Visual RF.
I looked at the demo, and while intriguing, at $30 per AP I’d have a hard time
justifying the cost.
-Neil
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Neil Johnson
Network Engineer
The University of Iowa
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We were interested in looking at the Voyance until the Nyansa person said he
did not know that Extreme had a wireless solution. ☺
Curtis Parish
615.494.8861
Senior Network Engineer
Middle Tennessee State University
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From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues
I would have expected the cost to be a stopping point for management here as
well.
When management saw the benefits Voyance can provide, we now have plans to
deploy on all our wireless network instead of the limited PoC we have now.
Bruce Osborne
Wireless Engineer
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